October 1981

Martin’s will go ahead next year with a “substantial enlargement” of its supermarket at 25 Main St., Westbrook.

On Tuesday, Westbrook will elect its full city government: mayor, clerk and all seven aldermen, for two-year terms. It will choose three of the seven school committee members for four-year terms.

An editorial calls for a “Yes” vote in Tuesday’s referendum on changing to elected, instead of appointed, members of the Maine Public Utilities Commission.

William B. O’Gara lost 10 years ago when he ran for mayor against a single opponent, Donald Brydon. He has won every two years since then, always facing at least two opponents. This year there are three: Lyle Cramer, Republican, Donato Corsetti, independent, also on the ballot; and Louis P. Blanchette, write-in.

Hebert’s Market, Westbrook, advertises, “Always fresh meat cut to your order, fresh fish and a cheddar wheel.”

Hannaford Bros. still is interested in developing a shopping center on the racetrack property on Narragansett Street, Gorham.

The County Road General Store, Westbrook, advertises Cracker Jacks, 5 for $1.

Twenty years ago, 478 men of the Maine Army National Guard were called to active duty when the U. S. and Russia were in a showdown over rights of access to West Berlin.

Scarborough is asking the state for $516,000 in state aid funds for repair of roads including Gorham Road, Black Point Road, Pleasant Hill Road, Highland Avenue, Old Blue Point Road, Milliken Mills Road and Broadturn Road.

Harold and Betty Siddons, Karen Avenue, Windham, took a seven-week trip to Alaska, mooring to the ferry at Prince Rupert, B.C., and touring widely in Alaska and Canada.

October 1991

A Red Ribbon parade tomorrow will demonstrate Westbrook children’s support for a national campaign “for a drug-free America.” About 1,000 students are expected to take part.

Low-fat chocolate milk was voted off the Gorham schools’ hot-lunch menu.

The Windham Affordable Housing Project is selling a new three-bedroom house for $65,000, to a low- or moderate-income family. It’s on two acres given by the town between the Windham Center and Nash Roads. The state gave $9,876 to construction cost, and various contractors worked at reduced profits.

Brian Weimer, formerly of Gorham, and Caroline Angela Grace Fong, of Chicago, were married in a smooth-running ceremony in Chicago, but it took some doing. The restaurant canceled, the caterer did, too, the cake baker was fired and the formalwear shop lost everyone’s measurements. A Gorham High School graduate, Brian is the son of Rita Weimer, Morrill Avenue, and George Weimer Sr., Narragansett Street. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he is a research assistant there for Judge Richard Posner.

Mrs. Olof Pearson, 24 Champion St., Scarborough was an honored guest at a ceremony at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, when a portrait of her late husband was hung in tribute to his pioneering work with hormones in cancer treatment. Dr. Pearson was once introduced in Germany as “father of hormones.”

The Maine Academy of Gymnastics is opening on Terminal Way, Westbrook.

Mayor Fred C. Wescott, the Democratic candidate, and Rob Smith, the Republican nominee, are to debate on Westbrook’s public access cable TV. Wescott said he won’t take part if any others are allowed in, including Alfred E. Porell, independent write-in candidate.